TY - BOOK ID - 101617628 TI - The other rise of the novel in eighteenth-century French fiction PY - 2015 SN - 1611495822 1611495814 1611495830 9781611495829 9781611495829 9781611495812 PB - Newark, DE : Lanham : University of Delaware Press ; The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Incorporated, DB - UniCat KW - French fiction KW - Social classes in literature. KW - Middle class in literature. KW - Literature and society KW - History and criticism. KW - History KW - Literature KW - Literature and sociology KW - Society and literature KW - Sociology and literature KW - Sociolinguistics KW - Middle classes in literature KW - Social aspects UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:101617628 AB - The Other Rise of the Novel relies on new research concerning the relevance of bourgeois values and ideals in the early modern period in France to question the extent to which characters in works of fiction portray the rise of individualistic and self-interested behavior. It argues that novels like Manon Lescaut, Lettres d'une Péruvienne, and La Nouvelle Héloïse produce their own alternative economies, different articulations of how individuals should define their relations to others. ER -